Wednesday, January 26, 2005
C'MON! This is often an appropriate thing for an athlete to say in the heat of battle.
Say you're a tennis player and you get lazy and miss a shot. "C'mon!" you say to yourself.
Or you've been playing poorly and you finally get it together. "C'mon!" you say, meaning "More of that!"
The Australian tennis player Lleyton Hewitt has a different idea of what the words "come" and "on" mean. Here's how Hewitt uses the phrase:
He's playing his grandmother, and she double-faults to go down 6-0, 5-0 when her hip breaks as she tries to hit the ball.
"C'MOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!" Hewitt says. Come on, break your hip again? Come on, let me win already? Only Lleyton Hewitt knows. This annoying habit is moot, I think, because other professional athletes should have thick-enough skins to ignore it, but it's still pretty annoying. And Hewitt is old enough and English-speaking enough to know what words mean.
Say you're a tennis player and you get lazy and miss a shot. "C'mon!" you say to yourself.
Or you've been playing poorly and you finally get it together. "C'mon!" you say, meaning "More of that!"
The Australian tennis player Lleyton Hewitt has a different idea of what the words "come" and "on" mean. Here's how Hewitt uses the phrase:
He's playing his grandmother, and she double-faults to go down 6-0, 5-0 when her hip breaks as she tries to hit the ball.
"C'MOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!" Hewitt says. Come on, break your hip again? Come on, let me win already? Only Lleyton Hewitt knows. This annoying habit is moot, I think, because other professional athletes should have thick-enough skins to ignore it, but it's still pretty annoying. And Hewitt is old enough and English-speaking enough to know what words mean.
